Living Landscapes literacy and science resources
SJ=Schools Journal
TSM=Teacher support material
Title
Type of resource
Reference
The Bittern
School Journal +
TSM
As above
As above
As above
Pt 3 #1 2009
Flying Fungi
The Butterfly Effect for lifecycle
Te Taonga Nai a Tane (Harvesting of the Kauri
Tree.)
Timber
Puketi Robins
How Big is your footprint?(for Green house effect
and climate change and challenges facing earth)
The Ant Army (to learn about ants)
Save our Sand dunes
Changing Landscapes
Pest Fish
Ants on the March (characteristics of army ants as
predators.)
Killer Plants
Plight of the Sea Turtle
Get your Hands Dirt.(about worms)
Making paper +(MP3)
Our Recycled Wormfarms
Pet Day Problem (Worms)
Make a mini Worm Farm
Catching Mustelids (About protection or
endangered wildlife)
Endangered Bird
Our Treasured Island
Hoiho and a New Home for Mokomoko
Spider/Spiderwork
Honey makers (about bees)
Blue Eggs (How the song thrush came to NZ)
Duckling Palace
As above
SJ only.
School Journal +
TSM
School Journal +
TSM
School Journal +
TSM
SJ only.
SJ only.
School Journal +
TSM
.
SJ only.
SJ only.
SJ only.
Junior Journal +
TSM
Junior Journal +
TSM
Junior Journal
Junior Journal +
TSM
Junior Journal +
TSM
Junior Journal +
TSM
Junior Journal +
TSM
Junior Journal
Junior Journal
Ready to
Read+TSM
Ready to
Read+TSM
Ready to Read
Year Level and
or NZC Level
Yr 5
Feb
April 2012
Pt 1, Nov
2011
Nov 2011
Pt 2#1 2011
Pt 3#1 2011
Level 2
Level 3
Yr 4
Pt 2#4 2010
Yr 5
Pt2#3 2010
Yr 4
Pt 2#1 2007
Pt2#42005
Pt2#4 2010
L2
L 3, Yr 6
Yr 5
Pt2#1 2010
Pt3#2 2008
Pt1#4 2009
44
40 (Audio
40/41)
40
39
L2 Gold
L1 Gold
L1 Gold
Purple
43 (Audio
42/43)
29
37
43
42 (Audio
42/43)
L1 orange
L1 Gold
Purple
Too Many Possums
A Very Clever possum
Extraordinary Earthworms
The White Tail Spider
The Magpie tree
Dancing Bees
Possum Pie (A play)
“Frogs”
“Frogs”
Mrs Wildings Potatoes (An All Black digging
potatoes)
Seeds for the Birds
Picking Peas (Roles and responsibilities of people
picking food together in India)
In a Chinese Garden (How and why a garden was
made)
Scarecrows from Space
Our Rocks Rock! by Jill MacGregor
“Finding Pounamu”
Tuatara by Lauris Edmond
Earhtquake
Pet Shop
Harakeke
Chicken
“To Spray or Not to Spray?”
“The Emperor of Peka Peka Beach”
“The Wild Deer Debate”
Backyard Chooks
Rata and the Totara Tree and
The Strength of Roots
Kuaka: The Marathon Bird, The Biggest Snake in
History, Save the Whales
+TSM
Ready to Read
+TSM
Ready to Read
Ready to Read
Ready to Read
JJ18
JJ 36
JJ
SJ
SJSL
SJ+TSM
Pt1#1 2006
May 2013
2013
Pt2#2 2011
SJ
SJ+TSM
Pt2#4 2007
Pt1#4 2010
Yr4 L2
SJ+TSM
Pt2#4 2010
L2
L1 Gold
Orange
Gold
Gold
Readt to
Read+TSM
School
Journal+TSM
SJ
SJ
L4
Yr5
Purple 2
April 2013
SJ
1.4.05
October
2012
Nov 2011
SJ
SJ
SJSL
School Journal
SJ
4.3.05
Oct 2012
2011
August 2013
March 2012
Sept 2011
Level 2 ,Year 4
L2
L3
L4
Level 2 ,Year 4
L4
L3
Connected Series- is a companion resource to the School Journal to promote scientific literacy,
technology and mathematics.
Year
Title/Theme
NZ Curriculum Level
2012
Bees
2
Connected 3 2011
Border/Biosecurity Security
3-4
Connected 2 2010
Working With Nature
(Enviroschool Project
Stories.)Environment and
Sustainability
1-3
Connected 1 2002
On Frog pond
2
Connected 2 2009
Dead Pigs with Maggots please
2
Connected 2 2003
“Māori Rock Science”
Connected 2 2003
‘A History of Rock”
Building Science Concept Books
(See http://scienceonline.tki.org.nz/Content-resources-and-rich-stories/Building-Science-Concepts
for teachers guide.)
Can be used with resources which assess NZC concepts from the books from: www.arb.nzcer.org.nz
Book Reference
Title
NZC Level
3
Birds, Structure, Function and
Adaptation
1-4
4
Animal life histories,
Reproduction, Growth and
Change.
1-4
6
Soil Animals:Diversity beneath
our feet (Includes food chains
and webs.)
1-4
39
Is this an animal? Diversity of
the animal kingdom
3-4
7
The bush-Classification of living
things
3-4
23
Fresh Food (decomposition)
1-2
24
Preserving Food
3-4
45
Slug and Snails: Investigating
small animals
1-4
52
The Land changes ( and the
balance of life.)
1-4
53
Moulds are Fungi (Mould
3-4
causes changes.)
55
Mammals (Classification
through observation.)
3-4
62
Spiders Everywhere
3-4
25
Flowers, fruits and Seeds
1-2
63
Growing Plants indoors
1-2
20
Making New Plants
3-4
35
Is this a Plant?
1-2
43
Spring: Observing Seasonal
Changes
1-2
44
Spring is a season
1-2